{"product_id":"9781629670041","title":"This White House: Recovery from Incest Through Painting My Story (Book One)","description":"This White House is the first in an utterly unique series of three books from Gabriel Orion Marie that tell the story of her amazing recovery from extreme and horrific physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse. Her drawings and paintings are powerful and deeply moving. Her words expound magnificently on the images. The offer courage to other survivors of abuse\/violence and are already being used by some therapists and students of psychology because they provide a vivid and unique inside view into the heart of a broken and healed woman.\u003cp\u003eThe themes in presented in This White House introduce you to Gabriel's life and the early years of abuse, which include being sold by her father as a child prostitute and being used for child pornography. She takes you into her experience of becoming many selves and the resulting anguish of insanity. You will quickly come to love this child\/woman and will want to follow her through to her recovery after you have been privy to what this books reveals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs part of honoring the YWCA Annual Week Without Violence Campaign, a selection of Gabriel Orion Marie's paintings were displayed in an exhibit entitled \"Strength from Brokenness\" in Kampen, Netherlands in Nov 27-Dec 13 2012. She is a featured artist with the foundation Art out of Violence in the Netherlands (kunstuitgeweld.nl).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA number of the Author's paintings have been used in presentations promoting sexual abuse awareness at the Awakenings Foundation in Chicago, Illinois - a foundation created to help victims of violence who have used art as a path for recovery. She will have an exhibit at the Awakenings Foundation Gallery in October of 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout This Series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are many themes in the areas of wounding and healing from sexual abuse, incest, and torture, and for my books, I have chosen themes that were most prominent in my journey. I created over 325 paintings and drawings during several years of my therapy and have arranged selections of them by themes for chapters. I tried to choose paintings in each topic that I felt would communicate best what I am trying to share.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese themes and paintings are divided into three books, each sharing the subtitle Recovery From Incest Through Painting My Story:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis White House (Book One)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 A Legacy of Shame: A Brief Autobiography\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 First Revelations: Beginning Therapy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Child Pornography\/Child Prostitution\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Multiplicity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Inner Deaths: Borderline Series\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Obesity and Measurement\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Spirituality and Guilt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing Sane (Book Two)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 The Therapeutic Relationship\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Establishing My Insanity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Tortured: Segreto Oscuro (Dark Secret)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 The Penis Question\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 The Fiercest Taboo\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Sensations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Some of My Selves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Spectacular Dawn (Book Three)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Choosing Consciousness\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Grieving\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Letting Go\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Forgiveness\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 A New Beginning\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 The Dawn and I\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Only Now\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabriel Orion Marie, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038199824624,"sku":"9781629670041","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781629670041_p0.jpg?v=1763873022","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781629670041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}